Maine Revised Statutes Title 5 Sec. 1512 – Payment of attorneys’ fees awards
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Terms Used In Maine Revised Statutes Title 5 Sec. 1512
- Assets: (1) The property comprising the estate of a deceased person, or (2) the property in a trust account.
- Attachment: A procedure by which a person's property is seized to pay judgments levied by the court.
- Settlement: Parties to a lawsuit resolve their difference without having a trial. Settlements often involve the payment of compensation by one party in satisfaction of the other party's claims.
- Statute: A law passed by a legislature.
Notwithstanding section 1543 or any other statute, attorneys’ fees awarded by a court against the State, its departments, agencies, officers or employees, and settlements of attorneys’ fees without court award in these cases, may be paid from any funds available to the State. The Governor may identify by financial order the account, fund or other source from which payment of the attorneys’ fees award or settlement shall be made. [PL 1981, c. 417 (NEW).]
All property, assets and interests of the State are exempt from any attachment or execution sought for the enforcement of an award of attorneys’ fees. [PL 1981, c. 417 (NEW).]
SECTION HISTORY
PL 1981, c. 417 (NEW).